Hey, I’m Emerson, the guitarist of Neuropsychosis.
I'm Kyle Gast and I play drums for Neuropsychosis.
I'm Colby. Musically I do bass, vocals, lyrics in Neuropsychosis. Outside this, I do editing and coloring of our releases, shirt designs and promotional content.
EMERSON - I originally came with the concept for Neuropsychosis back in August 2022 with my drummer Kyle, who thought of the band name.
Roughly 6 months later we found our vocalist Colby, who was not only a very unique vocalist and just an awesome dude to be working and spending time with, but he also had a very original and sick bass playing ability and the riffs he came up with added another layer of depth to our demo Indulging the Depraved.
KYLE - Neuropsychosis started when Emerson and I started jamming after meeting through mutual friends. I happened to be jamming on my kit when we met each other, we discussed a few bands of mutual interest and decided to start making music. I wasn't in any bands at the time, and I was playing drum set just for fun to old school death metal and thrash. Once we had a few songs together, Colby saw a rehearsal video of ours and very quickly proved himself as a hardworking and sick musician, and we released the demo soon after he joined.
COLBY - I joined the band late after the demo was fully written. I was supposed to just be the bassist and ended up becoming the vocalist as well. After that, we found our sound and have been evolving it ever since.
How was your experience at NSE fest?
EMERSON - NSE Fest was an incredible showing of how New Standard Elite is the best label in the business. The whole fest was run exceptionally smoothly, and both Ryan and Danial were on top of their game. Every single band killed it, and we are honored to have been a part of the fest. It was awesome being able to meet all of these sick people in person and to see some incredible musicianship. Some people I had the pleasure to talk with - the Torsofuck dudes, as well as our brothers in Embodied Torment, Trichiomoniosis, Anal Stabwound, Desecation, and Justin from Scatology Secretion.
KYLE - We had a great time at NSE fest! It was very inspiring to meet so many other extreme musicians and to hear that much live brutal death metal all at once. Every performance I saw there made me proud to have Neuropsychosis on the NSE roster.
COLBY - Easily one of the best experiences of my life, Everyone in Texas was very welcoming and respectful. Other than playing the fest, my highlights were hanging out with homies and labelmates such as torsofuck trichomaniasis embodied torment, scatology secretion and excrescence. These guys really made the experience whole for me but I would like to give special thanks to Ryan and Dan the owners of NSE for being the sickest. From talking to Dan about black metal and the older NSE roster bands to talking with ryan about Black Death bands old school deathfests and future NSE plans. The next group I'd like to thank for their time in Texas is Seven Sins. Adrian and Shadow are very nice and gave me a free shirt and wall banner and had some great talks about the music and the festival itself and future plans for Seven Sins. My last major thanks go to the security guards at Halatom Theater and Kevin Clark/Brian Wynn for coming out and having some sick talks with me about the history of devourment and sintury as well TXDM history and gifted brass knuckles by brian, Thanks to ruben from devourment as well for the small talk It was very cool to meet some of my idols
Scourging Homicidal Premonitions absolutely blew me away when I first heard it, and it is still in my constant rotation! Can you tell us what the writing and recording process was like? And was that your NSE debut?
professional recording we had done at Filthlab Studios in Tacoma WA.
For the writing process I would write riffs down sometimes separate from the rehearsal space, and then bring them to Kyle who had no problem understanding and writing drum parts to all of my weird timing and technical tracks. On other occasions all three of us would write riffs together since we have the flexibility to jam in person. The recording process went very smooth working with Rich at Filthlab. Recording took about a week, and we received our mix from him shortly after.
Yes, Scourging was our NSE debut and Indulging the Depraved was re-released on NSE.
KYLE - Thanks for the kind words! Our album wasn't truly our NSE debut because our demo came out on the label as well. Honestly, the writing process was pretty tough. I'm learning to play drum set as I go, and I'm always pushing my maximum speeds. Emerson starts with guitar riffs, usually transcribed into digital sheets. From there we just jam on the guitar ideas until I have something together that sounds good. It took a lot of reps to memorize all the crazy time changes. The recording days for the LP were brutal. I remember an 8+ hour day of drumming nonstop in Effluvia's studio. I feel like the 3 of us worked extremely hard on that release. We all agree on what sounds good pretty quickly so scrapping ideas and re-writing rarely happens, and I like that about our process
COLBY - Scourging Homicidal Premonitions was an interesting process. Most of it was just writing and rehearsing songs, then spending a few days at Rich’s studio recording them. What I recall is the name of the album came towards the end of finishing most of the songwriting and a little Easter egg about the title is “Homicidal Premonitions”, a reference to Beyond the Cemetery’s lyrics by cannibal corpse as Tomb of the mutilated is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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